I HATE waiting on shipments/orders... (1 Viewer)

[Ulric]

I ordered 50lbs from TBS on 2/13...after inquiring in regards to stock & turn around. I did up the order from the amount I had asked about, got a brief email in regards to the order then stating it would be a few days...

Our front, kept rolling east and apparently hosed things up roughed things up to much, they weren't able to start diving until Weds or thursday it look like.
It's friday, no rock...boring arse empy tank slowly, ever so slowly cycliing... with the hope that maybe sometime the stuff will ship.

Shoulda known better trying to order on a 13th... anyone gotta nice bottle of patience?

 

[crvz]

I dont. I was to recieve a dry-goods order from marine depot today, but I got a nice message of "late train delayed this shipment." But as it's friday, i get to wait through the weekend. Boo, train. Booooo....

 

[Guest]

Having to wait over the weekend is the worst. Why cant they deliver same day??

 

[crvz]

And who uses trains?!?! What century is this?

 

[Guest]

I hate when I order something on a thurs or fri and have to wait till the following week before it even gets shipped!

 

[FireEater]

I ordered 50lbs from TBS on 2/13

Believe me when I say the wait for thast rock is well worth it!

They will dive that morning, gather your rock, bring it back, package it and ship it all to arrive around noon to 3PM.

Just make sure you check ALL the holes and crevices and such with a flashlight for mantis shrimp and gorilla crabs.

If in doubt on the crabs, put them somewhere until a positive ID can be made.

 

[Ulric]

"They will dive that morning, gather your rock, bring it back, package it and ship it all to arrive around noon to 3PM. "

Gonna put in a pvc frame, to suspend the rock over the sand bed for a few days/weels woth the hope of removing most the stuff unwanted stuff from the rock, after I check it....whenever I eventually recieve it.
I'll admit, I'm impatient...but there's been no darn update since weds/thursday, and that was a very brief post on reefcentral ("more to come tomorrow...too tired!") some kind of email update would be of help, or activity state on the website.
No idea of what kinda of backlog there is and really don't want to spend another week or two waiting, particularly with no concept of an eventual eta.

 

[Guest]

I know what you mean, but it is well worth it when all your stuff arrives alive in water and they ship quality rock. I would rather wait then get something less than what I expected. I even managed to get a goby in my rock with no bad buggers... Of course it would be wise to keep your rock quarantined until you can make sure there is nothing in the rock you may not want.

 

[Ulric]

Fresh tank... so no dangers...and hence the impatience. 3 weeks of a tank with nothing but water & sand as it ever so frigging slowly cycles.

Did Floridaliverock before...decided to give TBS a try then supplement with local. However currently, liverock seems a scare commodity lately...

 

[Guest]

Was at City Pets tonight they have a 200 gallon tank full of live rock. Dont know what kind of shape they are in.
I was buying some new t5 bulbs & just happen to see that tank.

Dont worry to much about waiting . Those that wait will end up with some of the best stuff.

 

[Ulric]

..and it's enroute

 

[Niko5]

TBS rock is the best well maybe not the best but Im really happy with them!

 

[Ulric]

Well after some confusion on the part of continental... I recieved approx 50lbs in 2 boxes.


(This is for those tht have asked me about TBS)...

Opened each box, removed the rubber bands from the bags...
Let me explain...you open the box and find a plastic bag...and I mean THICK plastic... each 'box' had, 5...yes 5 bags, on inside the other... filled with rock and water.

50lbs came out to approx 17 pieces of rock... from raquetball to large grapefruit size. Most being between Large softball and grapefruit.

At least 1/2 to 2/3s the rock have Macro Algea on them... Feather & Grape Calupera and a red type I haven't been able to Id yet.
I've counted 2 tiny crabs, most likely gorilla/stone... and so far 5 pistol shrimp of various size. The 2 largest being maybe 1/4".
There are a few tube corals, and what looks kinda of like a brown, encrusting coral. Various Sponges some misc small stars & pods.

All in all, Im not overwhelmed nor disappointed...

Compared to what I received when I ordered from Florida Live rock (floridaliverock.com)... Several of those were covered with Turkey Wing clams, and 2 decent sized jewle box clams, a large number of tube corals and later disgorged 2 mantis shrimp & 2 spiny urchins.
the rock does seems a bit more porous(sp?)... and much more macro.
The rock itself from them was not as...holey, several larger, denser pieces...and decent sized curly cue anemone.

..and it's possible had I not been so impatient the TBS might have been nicer, but all in all I can't nor wouldn't complain about what I recieved.

 

[FireEater]

Give it time in your tank, it will have all kinds of life come out on it.

 

[Ulric]

It's all good FE, just my initial thoughts/comparison to this vs the rock the first time I set the tank up with the other source.

 

[Ulric]

update tank/rock...

Corals & macro seem to be doing well (Macro, particulalry the feather calupera is doing VERY well, dramatic growth on some of the small/young fronds. It appears most the, die off of the macro from shipping has already taken place. Figure approx almost 1/4" of the feather calupera within a 24-36 hour period. I can see where/how this would/could be referred to at time a a nuisance algea.

0 Am, Nitrite is still beyond the scope of my test kit... this growth of the algea, and what appears to be a diatom bloom on the sand/glass does make me feel better in regards to how the cycle is going though.

 

[Guest]

It's all good FE, just my initial thoughts/comparison to this vs the rock the first time I set the tank up with the other source.

I definitely had a lot more stuff on my rock when I got it, but then again our shipment was delayed a bit as well. It was well worth the wait. I definitely will order from TBS again.

 

[Ulric]

Actually, I've been planning on taking the kids to the keys to see one of their grandmothers this summer. Thinking of trying to see about picking out some rock if possible on that trip.

 

[cstewart79]

Which type of rock did you get?

 

[Guest]

I think I ended up with the premium... or whatever the higher grade was called.